It can be hard to hear that not everyone likes your book. It turns out that not everyone is into contemporary adult romances, particularly the adult bit, and particularly if they are still regular church goers. One of the dangers of telling all your friends you have written a book is that they all then want to support you by reading it, which is great on the one hand but challenging when they were never your intended audience. Still I can't really afford to be fussy.
Fitting in writing with a full time job and family is hard. There is just not enough time to do everything, and sadly writing is the luxury pleasure that goes first. The frustrating thing is that I now have 4 stories buzzing round my head (seriously) that I want to write, and invariably they buzz loudest just when I'm meant to be going to bed.
The consistent feedback I've had is that the book eases into itself after the first couple of chapters. Trouble is any potential publishers ask for the first couple of chapters and judge you on that - you see the problem. I'm working on it for future books.
It's hard to get going outside of the UK - I really have no idea how I'm going to manage that.
I really struggle with twitter. I want to like it, but am failing so far. It feels like a lot of people shouting about themselves, but I'm yet to be persuaded anyone is actually listening. There are a couple of funny people. Camel Toe, you've made me laugh more than once, but otherwise I'm at a loss.
Otherwise it's all going well.....
